Thread: 'National Geographic' just made history with its new cover

-As part of its January 2017 issue exploring our evolving understandings and definitions of gender, National Geographic is featuring nine-year-old transgender rights activist Avery Jackson on its cover—the first time a trans person has made the cover of the magazine.

Jackson rose to stardom last year when she began documenting her transition with "Avery Chats," a series of YouTube videos describing how she came to understand her identity at such a young age and eventually came out to her parents as trans.

"When I was born, doctors said I was a boy, but I knew in my heart I was a girl," Jackson explained in her first video. "So I may have some boy body parts, but that's not wrong, that is OK..."

http://fusion.net/story/376311/avery...c-trans-cover/

If I force myself to think about this in secular, largely amoralistic terms, I'll still come to the conclusion that a child has no grounds for making a decision about own gender and before puberty it is ludicrous. The fact that people advocate for such a thing makes me sick.

It is despicable that adults would promote such evil but the fullness of sin is being revealed

this makes my heart sad

I was just like the 'trans' 9-year-old in National Geographic. Now I know it's pure fantasy

-January 12, 2017 (ThePublicDiscourse) -- Psychiatrist Richard Corradi calls transgenderism a "contagion of mass delusion." As a former transgender, I can tell you that Dr. Corradi is correct. Yet National Geographic magazine selected a trans-activist boy named Avery Jackson for the cover of its special January "Gender Revolution" issue—an image and publication that will only help promote this "contagion of mass delusion" around the globe.

Like it or not, there are two sexes: male and female. Man and woman join to form the foundation of family. National Geographic apparently felt the need to give the LGBTQ movement a helping hand in redefining gender and family.

If you're an LGBTQ loyalist, you will love the "in your face" cover photo of the boy Avery. But for me, one who was restored after living for eight years as a female transgender, the cover photo is a sad and painful reminder of a lost childhood, a family ripped apart, and a marriage that did not survive. To me, the cover is a glossy reminder of the brokenness of transgender ideology.

The cover photo of Avery, like all photos, shows one moment in time. What it does not give us is a long-range perspective of the consequences of Avery's choices and those of his parents. It cannot show us his future.

I lived "the life," just like Avery. I was a cross-dressing boy at age nine, but—after years of pain and self-delusion—my cross-dressing stopped decades later, when I realized that the idea of changing sexes is pure fantasy. Cross-dressing initially felt zany, fun, exhilarating, and wonderfully affirming of my belief that I should have been born a girl. But after many decades of trying to comprehend the gender confusion that persisted even after my sex transition, I came to understand that my grandmother's cross-dressing of me was emotional child abuse. The psychological harm grew as years went by.

Suicide

The transgender promotional cover photo of Avery fails to address the 41 percent of the transgender population who will at some point attempt suicide. Even when affirmed, accepted, and loved, transgender individuals attempt suicide, which indicates that the issues they struggle with run deeper than a change in gender identity can rectify. Sex reassignment has not proven to be effective in resolving gender dysphoria for nearly half of this diverse population of gender-troubled individuals.

A review of 100 research findings concludes that sex changes are not effective, and many transgender people after surgery remain traumatized to the point of suicide.
This National Geographic cover is slick work, as it attempts to legitimize cross-dressing. Calling it "transgenderism" sounds more current than "cross-dressing," but the reality remains the same...

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion...-mass-delusion

We knew a TG person for many years. You would never expect it, as he was a martial arts tough-looking guy who sometimes accompanied the wife and lady friends to an event as a bodyguard. It was quite a shock to find out that he said he was going to have the re-assignment surgery and that he felt like the "woman trapped in a man's body" since childhood.

We tried to get him to really re-consider, but he was deadset on it. As expected, his life has been very miserable ever since, struggling from job to job, as he spent most of his life savings for the operation and accompanying hormone treatments, etc.

I have noticed Bruce Jenner never looks happy.